Developing and Evaluating Quality Bilingual Practices in Higher Education

Fernando D. Rubio Alcalá is Head of Language Policy at the University of Huelva, Spain. His main research field is foreign language acquisition, with a particular focus on multilingualism in tertiary education and the influence of affective factors in foreign language teaching and learning.

Do Coyle is Professor of Languages Education and Classroom Pedagogy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research focuses on bilingual education and pedagogies specifically content and language integrated learning (CLIL). Her seminal Cambridge University Press (CUP) book titled CLIL (Coyle, Hood & Marsh, 2010) led to recent CUP publications – Beyond CLIL (Coyle & Meyer, 2021) and A Deeper Learning Companion for CLIL (Coyle, Meyer & Straschen-Dielmann, 2023). As a founder member of the Graz Group, she promotes pluriliteracies teacher education and prioritises how classrooms, pedagogic shifts, disciplinary literacies, and shared learning spaces impact on equality, diversity, and inclusion for those who matter most – teachers and learners.